African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art

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Lot 202
  • 202

A Jalisco Litter Group, Protoclassic, ca. 100 B.C.-A.D. 250

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

wtih six attendants (some fragmentary) carrying a marriage couple or village rulers on a litter, the female holding a sun shield over the male's head and touching his shoulder; painted with reddish brown and beige pigment. 

Provenance

Jay C. Leff Collection
Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, Important African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art, Property of Jay C. Leff, October 10 and 11, 1975, lot 387, illus.
Acquired from the above by a Canadian private collector

Exhibited

Brooklyn, Ancient Art of Latin America from the Collection of Jay C. Leff, catalogue of the exhibition, by Elizabeth Kennedy Easby, November 22,1966-March 5, 1967, no. 295
Allentown, Allentown Museum of Art, Pre-Columbian Art of Mesoamerica from the Collection of Jay C. Leff, 1972, no. 100, illus.
Huntington, West Virginia, The Huntington Galleries, Ancient Art of Middle America, catalogue of the exhibition, by Katheryn M. Linduff, February 17-June 9, 1974, no. 124
Downsview, Canada, Human Images through the Ages from the Finlayson Collection, February 10-March 3, 1976, no. 13, illus.

Catalogue Note

Cf. Townsend ed. (1998:96, fig. 11).